Sociology of Children and Families
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Sociology of Children and Families

Realizing Children's Rights in Ghana's Pluralistic Society

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Sociology of Children and Families

Realizing Children's Rights in Ghana's Pluralistic Society

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Focusing on Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this book explores how dominant children's rights principles interact with the lived realities of a range of children's lives.

The author considers the changeability and inconsistencies of childhoods within this context and the factors that underpin these varied intersections, including cultural norms, British colonial legacy, the influence of Christianity, urbanization, and social, economic and political transformations.

Challenging one-dimensional portrayals of childhoods in the Global South, the author highlights the need for more holistic approaches to the study of children's lives and children's rights realization in Southern contexts.

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Publisher
Bristol University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781529227635
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. List of Figures and Table
  8. About the Author
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Tracing the Western Origins of Global Children’s Rights Discourses
  11. 2 From the National to the International: The Makings of the Global Discourse of Children’s Rights
  12. 3 Global Children’s Rights Discourses: Imperialistic, Irrelevant and Inapplicable to Southern Contexts?
  13. 4 Historical Approaches to Child Welfare in Ghana
  14. 5 From Marginal to Central: Tracing the Deployment of Children’s Rights Language in Laws and Action in Ghana
  15. 6 Exploring the Multiplicity of Childhoods and Child-Rearing Practices in a Pluralistic Society and the Implications for Children’s Rights
  16. 7 The Plurality of Childhoods and the Significance for Rights Discourses: An Exploration of Child Duty and Work Against a Backdrop of Social Inequality
  17. 8 Implications of the Pluralities of Childhood Conceptualizations and Lived Experiences in the Global South for Studies of Children’s Rights
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index